Healthcare Identity Resources
A solid foundation for healthcare information management requires accurate identification of each person receiving or providing healthcare services, and anyone accessing or using this information. As the healthcare industry moves away from paper-based medical records that are controlled by physical access to buildings, rooms, and files, an infrastructure that supports strong identity and security controls is needed. The healthcare identity management infrastructure must have a way to uniquely and securely authenticate each person across the healthcare infrastructure, whether that interaction is in person or over the Internet.
Healthcare organizations worldwide are implementing smart health cards supporting a wide variety of features and applications. Smart health cards can improve the security and privacy of patient information, provide the secure carrier for portable medical records, reduce healthcare fraud, support new processes for portable medical records, provide secure access to emergency medical information, enable compliance with government initiatives and mandates, and provide the platform to implement other applications as needed by the healthcare organization.
The Secure Technology Alliance Health and Human Services Council offers the resources below to assist healthcare organizations in their efforts to implement a robust identity management infrastructure.
Secure Technology Alliance Resources on Healthcare Identity
- Benefits of Smart Cards versus Magnetic Stripe Cards for Healthcare Applications
- The Benefits of Strong Authentication for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- Complementary Smart Card Guidance for the WEDI Health Identification Card Implementation Guide
- Getting to Meaningful Use and Beyond: How Smart Card Technology Can Support Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records
- Health and Human Services Council
- Healthcare Identity Management LinkedIn Group
- Effective Healthcare Identity Management: A Necessary First Step for Improving U.S. Healthcare Information Systems – A Smart Card Alliance Brief for Government Policy Makers and Other Stakeholders
- Getting to Meaningful Use and Beyond: How Smart Card Technology Can Support Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records
- A Healthcare CFO’s Guide to Smart Card Technology and Applications
- Healthcare Identity Management: The Foundation for a Secure and Trusted National Health Information Network
- HIPAA Compliance and Smart Cards: Solutions to Privacy and Security Requirements
- Identity Management in Healthcare webinar
- Identity on a Mobile Device webinar series
- Medical Identity Theft in Healthcare
- Smart Card Alliance Comments: Reboot: Re-Examining the Strategies Needed to Successfully Adopt Health IT
- Smart Card Applications in the U.S. Healthcare Industry
- Smart Card Technology in Healthcare: Frequently Asked Questions
- Smart Cards and Biometrics in Healthcare Identity Applications
- Smart Cards in U.S. Healthcare: Benefits for Patients, Providers and Payers
- Smart Health ID Cards: Addressing Challenges with Patient Identity Management and Authentication Webinar
Industry Organizations
- American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA)
- Council for Afforable Quality Healthcare (CAQH)
- Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS)
- Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)
- Medical Group Management Association (MGMA)
- Medical Identity Fraud Alliance (MIFA)
- National Association of Healthcare Access Management (NAHAM)
- Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
- SAFE BioPharma
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI)